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This week on The Confab: The legacy of Loving in America and the ongoing cost of free love. Plus, what single women everywhere can learn from Michelle Obama. Join The Root's Managing Editor Lynette Clemetson as she talks with Washington reporter Dayo Olopade and contributors to The Root Monique Fields and Jenee Desmond-Harris.
* Podcast production by Abdullah Rufus.
* Podcast theme music by Timothy Morrison.
The Confab -- June 12, 2009 -
How I uncovered the story of the woman who was missing from childhood history books.
Sally Hemings and Me -
In this excerpt of "The Hemingses of Monticello," author Annette Gordon-Reed examines how Sally Hemings and her brother, the chef James Hemings, enjoyed the cosmopolitan lifestyle of Paris in the 1770s while living with Thomas Jefferson during his stint as Ambassador to France. Teenaged Sally gets her own wages and a taste of freedom that eluded her back home in Virginia.
Sally Hemings in Paris -
In this excerpt of "The Hemingses of Monticello," author Annette Gordon-Reed examines the life of Hemings matriarch Elizabeth (mother of Sally), born in 1735. Here is a rare glimpse at the life of woman born to an Englishman and an African-born enslaved woman, whose offspring would go on to live relatively privileged lives entwined with the fate of Founding Father Thomas Jefferson.
"Young Elizabeth Hemings's World" -
In this excerpt from 'The Hemingses of Monticello,' author Annette Gordon-Reed examines the contradictions inherent in the relationship between Hemings and Jefferson families-united by slavery and blood ties. The relationship began at the childhood home of Jefferson's wife Martha Wayles Jefferson, a Williamsburg-area plantation known as the 'The Forest.' At that estate, the Hemings matriarch Elizabeth bore several children with her owner, John Wayles. Elizabeth's last child, Sally became half-sister, servant and confidante to Martha Wayles Jefferson, as well as mother of several children by Thomas Jefferson.
'Thomas Jefferson' -
From the earliest days of the Republic, interracial relationships in America have never been, could never be, just about love stories.
When Tom Met Sally
